On October 24, 2015 I gave a presentation on Static Website Generators at Milwakee Code Camp 2015.

##The slides can be found on GitHub:

http://quentin-blacklock.github.io/talk-static-site-generators

With the presentation source in this repository:

https://github.com/quentin-blacklock/talk-static-site-generators<

##About Static Site Generators

Static Website Generators are command line tools that process input files consisting of configuation, content, templates and layouts.

Then they output a static site consisting of html, css, javascipt and images.

The Static Site Generator Universe

You can find many different static site generators at thes sites:

StaticGen</br> Top Open-Source Static Site Generators

Static Site Generators</br> The definitive listing of Static Site Generators

##The Static Site Generators discussed include:

GitHub Pages

Jekyll

Wyam

Hugo

Cleaver

GitBook

##Jekyll Theme Demo

The Jekyll them demo that switched to mobile due to the low resolution of the projector can be viewed at:

http://phlow.github.io/feeling-responsive

with the source code at

https://github.com/Phlow/feeling-responsive

What else do you want to know about static site generators?

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